Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bella Vista was named by an optimist. The outlook from the white cubical villa, surmounted by four grotesque chimneys, is gloomy. Ancient, vine-tangled trees surround it like careless sentinels. The great cast-iron gate is rusty...
...forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire furniture against the walls...
...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
Alexander P. de Seversky, planemaker and armchair strategist (Victory through Airpower), was elected mayor of Asharoken Village, N.Y. He got 23 of the 40 votes cast. Village trustee: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg...
...place in the American Association in two years (and the value of the club from $90,000 to $250,000), Veeck joined the Marines. An impish-looking fellow of 33 with a crew haircut and massive face, he was injured at Bougainville, now carries his right leg in a cast...